The READ surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,736	1981	0.006	62
United States (1880 census)	11,429	525	0.023	229
Change since 1880	+5307	-1456	-0.017	-167
Other Countries
Australia	4,763	305	0.029	291
United Kingdom	21,957	248	0.048	478

Top States for READ by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,709	1390	0.008	82
California	1,677	1853	0.005	50
Florida	1,149	1713	0.007	72
New York	723	2522	0.004	38
Washington	648	1057	0.011	110
Top States for READ by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	208	634	0.020	198
Vermont	115	863	0.019	189
Maine	200	1204	0.016	157
Oregon	513	717	0.015	150
Utah	323	896	0.014	145

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called READ live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called READ represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called READ in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a READ by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of READ

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the READ surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the READ surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of READ in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	487	2.91
Black/African American	465	2.78
Mixed Race	219	1.31
Asian/Pacific	79	0.47
Native American/Alaskan	69	0.41
White (Caucasian)	15,419	92.13

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the READ surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.